With Halloween this weekend, we get some book recommendations to get your blood racing from “The Stacks” host and creator Traci Thomas.
FICTION
- “Carrie” by Stephen King
- “Tender Is the Flesh” by Agustina Bazterrica, translated by Sarah Moses
- “The Buffalo Hunter Hunter” by Stephen Graham Jones
- “Beloved” by Toni Morrison
- “Camp Damascus” by Chuck Tingle
- “Friday Black” by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah (short stories)
- “A Plagued Sea” by Kim Bo-Young, translated by Sophie Bowman
- “The Reformatory” by Tananarive Due
- “Monstrilio” by Gerardo Sámano Córdova
- “Lone Women” by Victor LaValle
- “The Hunger We Pass Down” by Jen Sookfong Lee
- “Rosemary’s Baby” by Ira Levin
- “Her Body and Other Parties” by Carmen Maria Machado (short stories)
- “Zombie” by Joyce Carol Oates
- “The Haunting of Hill House” by Shirley Jackson
- “House of Bone and Rain” by Gabino Iglesias
- “Our Share of Night” by Mariana Enríquez, translated by Megan McDowell
- “The Vegetarian” by Han Kang, translated by Deborah Smith
- “Into the Drowning Deep” by Mira Grant
HORROR ANTHOLOGIES
- “Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology” and “Back for Blood: Never Whistle at Night Part II” edited by Shane Hawk and Theodore C. Van Alst Jr.
- “Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror” edited by Jordan Peele and John Joseph Adams
- “Something Followed Us Home: Tales of Latiné Horror” edited by Cynthia Pelayo
NONFICTION
- “Paradise: One Town’s Struggle to Survive an American Wildfire” by Lizzie Johnson
- “More Weight: A Salem Story” by Ben Wickey
- “The Barn: The Secret History of a Murder in Mississippi” by Wright Thompson
- “We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda” by Philip Gourevitch
- “Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders” by Vincent Bugliosi with Curt Gentry
- “The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party” by Daniel James Brown
- “Blood in the Water: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and Its Legacy” by Heather Ann Thompson
- “The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II” by Iris Chang
- “People Who Eat Darkness: Murder, Grief and a Journey into Japan’s Shadows” by Richard Lloyd Parry
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